The Hidden Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDEEFFGGHH AAGGG GGIIJJ KKLL| O let me love my love unto myself alone | A |
| And know my knowledge to the world unknown | A |
| No witness to my vision call | B |
| Beholding unbeheld of all | B |
| And worship Thee with Thee withdrawn apart | C |
| Whoe'er Whate'er Thou art | C |
| Within the closest veil of mine own inmost heart | C |
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| What is it then to me | D |
| If others are inquisitive to see | D |
| Why should I quit my place to go and ask | E |
| If other men are working at their task | E |
| Leave my own buried roots to go | F |
| And see that brother plants shall grow | F |
| And turn away from Thee O Thou most Holy Light | G |
| To look if other orbs their orbits keep aright | G |
| Around their proper sun | H |
| Deserting Thee and being undone | H |
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| O let me love my love unto myself alone | A |
| And know my knowledge to the world unknown | A |
| And worship Thee O hid One O much sought | G |
| As but man can or ought | G |
| Within the abstracted'st shrine of my least breathed on thought | G |
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| Better it were thou sayest to consent | G |
| Feast while we may and live ere life be spent | G |
| Close up clear eyes and call the unstable sure | I |
| The unlovely lovely and the filthy pure | I |
| In self belyings self deceivings roll | J |
| And lose in Action Passion Talk the soul | J |
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| Nay better far to mark off thus much air | K |
| And call it Heaven place bliss and glory there | K |
| Fix perfect homes in the unsubstantial sky | L |
| And say what is not will be by and bye | L |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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